FSFE: Public Money? Public Code! [LWN.net]

The Free Software Foundation Europe has joined several organizations in publishing an open letter urging lawmakers to advance legislation requiring publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made available under a Free and Open Source Software license. "The initial signatories include CCC, EDRi, Free Software Foundation Europe, KDE, Open Knowledge Foundation Germany, openSUSE, Open Source Business Alliance, Open Source Initiative, The Document Foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland, as well as several others; they ask individuals and other organisation to sign the open letter. The open letter will be sent to candidates for the German Parliament election and, during the coming months, until the 2019 EU parliament elections, to other representatives of the EU and EU member states."